OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14499701

CONCRETE SLAB,UNSECURED,WORK RULES,CRUSHED,STRUCK BY,FALLING OBJECT,UNSTABLE POSITION

1986-06-18T00:00:00

Event: CONCRETE SLAB,UNSECURED,WORK RULES,CRUSHED,STRUCK BY,FALLING OBJECT,UNSTABLE POSITION
Linked inspection: No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number: 14499701
Report ID: 523400

Event description

CONCRETE SLAB FELL OVER, CRUSHING NEARBY EMPLOYEE

Investigation abstract

FOUR EMPLOYEES WERE UNLOADING CONCRETE WALL PANELS FROM THE BED OF A SEMI TRAILE R. THEY WERE IN A HURRY AND WERE NOT ADEQUATELY SUPERVISED. NO WORK RULES WERE I N PLACE FOR THE UNLOADING OPERATION. THE BINDER CHAINS WERE RELEASED BEFORE THE LIFT RIGGING WAS EMPLACED. SINCE THE SLAB, WHICH HAD BEEN LOADED VERTICALLY, WAS NO LONGER SUPPORTED, AND THE TRUCK BED WAS NOT LEVEL, THE SLAB TIPPED OVER. EMP LOYEE #1 WAS STRUCK AND CRUSHED BY THE HEAVY PIECE OF CONCRETE.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 48 M

Nature of injury
12

Part of body
13

Event type
2

Source
27

Occupation code
889

Human factor
4

Environmental factor
4

Task assigned
1

Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.